Olympics: Intelligence key to anti-doping in 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Intelligence gathered from everyone from cleaning staff to customs officials will help authorities to target drug testing at the athletes, sports and nations most likely to cheat at the London 2012 Olympic Games, anti-doping experts said on Monday.
LA Dodgers press to widen battle with baseball league
(Reuters) - The Los Angeles Dodgers said a bankruptcy judge has unfairly limited the team in its fight to prove Major League Baseball overstepped its bounds, according to new court documents filed on Monday.
Nobel Foundation says Steinman to remain Nobel laureate
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Nobel Foundation said on Monday a decision to award the 2011 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology to Canadian scientist Ralph Steinman would remain unchanged despite his death.
Appeals court to decide whether shooting suspect may be drugged
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal appeals court will consider an emergency plea by lawyers for Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner to overturn a ruling ordering four more months of psychiatric treatment.
Senate aims at China's yuan with eye on jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers will take aim at one of China's core economic policies Monday when the Senate begins debating a bill aimed at pressing China to let its currency rise in value in the hope of creating jobs.
Wall Street extends losses as banks weigh
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks extended declines on Monday on investor concern about the banking sector's exposure to a possible sovereign default in Greece and its effect on European lenders.
"Sunny" Meredith, victim, forgotten at Italy trial
PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - Four years after her brutal murder, British student Meredith Kercher has been virtually forgotten as the media spotlight shifted to Amanda Knox, the fresh-faced American girl appealing against her conviction for killing her.
Top court considers California Medicaid cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday and considered whether Medicaid recipients and medical providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates in the healthcare program for low-income Americans.
Michael Jackson lives again in "Immortal" stage show
MONTREAL (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's music, moves and imagination live again in Cirque du Soleil's new show "The Immortal World Tour" which opened in Montreal to screams, cries and a standing ovation on Sunday ahead of a 10-month North American tour.
Despair and resignation in Greece as more pain looms
ATHENS (Reuters) - The slogans on the street are about storming the barricades, but when you talk to Greeks about the financial crisis that has brought their country to its knees, their anger quickly gives way to resignation and despair.
